skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing natural (as in inevitable) about it. The crossbow was put to widespread use because it was like a deskilled regular bow. Then muskets because they were even easier to train for.
> but it IS also "just a calculation" to almost everyone else in the universe

What do you mean by "just a calculation" here, and how does everyone else's experience of pain apply?

You seem to be implying that for everyone who is not the 1st person subjective experiencer of pain, the only possible representation of that pain is some form of "calculation". You seem to further imply that this reduction somehow says something specific about the nature of pain itself. Am I reading this right?

Sure, you could choose to use some process of calculation as one way to measure pain, but this isn't the only way to conceptualize it, nor is it the only way that people experience it.

e.g. mirror neurons are interesting to consider. We have in our brains these neurons dedicated to experiencing what we observe others experiencing. We cringe when we see someone suddenly become involved in a painful accident. We recoil when we see something horrific. The nature of what the observer experiences is almost certainly very different than what the person in pain is experiencing, but there's a shared experience for those in proximity.

Whatever pain is or isn't, the fact that its effects can be localized to a single person and the fact that it may be calculable in some way seem unrelated to each other.

> two mutually exclusive truths can exist simultaneously (it does not hurt YOU when I put my finger in the doorway and slam the door)

You hurting your finger in the door and me not feeling the exact thing you experienced are independent facts about the state of the world when the door slamming occurred. Mutual exclusivity seems misapplied here.
The only ones that really bother me are crippleware.

Either provide the full product, for a limited time/usage, OR, just skip it.
The last fucking thing ANYONE needs is to work through the UI of an app, get everything staged, then get a fucking "buy me" prompt when they click "ok" to start the process.

As far as the 7/14/30 day trials, I'm fine with those, as long as the above is respected, otherwise, GTFO.
If your house is still worth enough to cover the debt. If the sale of your house is not enough to cover it (which can happen if you bought during a bubble that burst), will your whole debt at least be forgiven?
author of the post here, this is exactly right. There's zero 'structural empathy' towards non-car-drivers. It's always been that way in America, though, as soon as municipal planners figured out they could use federal highway money to run highways through ethnic neighborhoods full of 'those people', and could destroy those neighborhoods. The danger was the point.

That 'lack of empathy' has killed literally tens of thousands of children, as their parents plead before local municipal planners to do something, anything, to cause their kids to not die.

The planners say "meh, don't know don't care, but I'll sleep fine tonight."
> why it's so much easier to deal with B2B and Enterprise software: With cheap consumer software, you get people who will complain to the ends of the earth about your $20 software or jump through hoops to avoid paying less than the cost of a couple drinks to purchase software that clearly solves their needs

Someone will drop $20 on lunch from some place with no guarantees to its quality and think nothing of it.

But asking the same amount for software requires a painstakingly thorough evaluation.

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Products like Gmail, Facebook, Dropbox etc have trained consumers that the normal price of software is $0.
Rising inventories aren't unique to Tesla:

https://caredge.com/guides/new-car-inventory-2024
As is pretty much anything that comes in a .pkg, to be honest. It's kinda bonkers that you need third-party apps to (attempt to) cleanly uninstall things.
What percentage of people have microplastics in their body? Or have been previously infected by common childhood illness? I’m not giving these as theories for Alzheimer’s etiology, but to show that some environmental factors are ubiquitous.

Just because an environmental factor is ubiquitous—-or is ubiquitous within the frame of some sampling bias for the study—-doesn’t mean we should conclude the cause does not exist.
Sum of individual features is not greater than the whole product .

The community is what makes SO valuable (to investors), so it makes sense to keep things the community values most :q/ a Database and jobs
Assuming you use a connection pool, why would it stop? Either the query returns a result or it doesnt? Am I missing something?
New Microsoft AI model may challenge GPT-4 and Google Gemini
I don't know how developed is it now, I'm not associated with the startup shown in any way. It's mainly a question to them. However, in terms of wider industry, in general distributed high-performance GPU(-like) computing "for everyone" is in its infancy. 99% of what was already done up to this point was targeted to people who would both buy and supply power "in bulk", not "in retail". Perhaps with a little exception of several excellent projects like Folding@Home and other @home's.
ARD is experimenting with trying to get users to jump out of YT for content, but they still post a lot of material there.
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I'm seeking my first job after university. I'm passionate about embedded systems/bare-metal programming, performance-critical code, and cryptography.
Thanks, I strongly feel that publicy-funded software should be at least open source if not public domain, but the market impact is a wrinkle I hadn't considered before.
Correction on Qualcomm iGPUs
Don't buy GM and expect privacy.[1]

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/technology/general-motors...
Was RDRAM a nod to Dennard or pure coincidence?
What do you like so much about the Hyundais?

Plugin hybrids are something I'm considering as well.
The Culture Code - Daniel Coyle
Atomic Habits.

It's a simple book that can be summarized in an essay, but listening to it repeatedly while driving helps me keep my life on track.
It would be interesting if there was one major city that invested enough funds to organize thrift stores around particular design aesthetics or historic periods. So you could have a `50's thrift store, a `60's one, etc. Alternatively they could be organized around classes of goods such as clothing, household appliances, tools, etc.

There is a lot of stuff out there but not enough incentive to bring it all together, refurbish, and reuse.
We've got a one-liner for spinning up your own ollama UI. See https://github.com/fly-apps/ollama-open-webui
Being wet isn't that big of a deal, as you say people sweat and they don't die of exposure. The primary goal is to be warm.

In the past, people spent all their time outdoors and fought wars without a trace of Gore-Tex or DWR. They wore wool underwear and cotton jackets. Now office workers think they need 3L Goretex for the scramble across the parking lot.
Lol but math for what use? Math just for maths sake? High risk of making math boring af.

Get out and do some woodworking or metalworking and build something with it. You will probably both learn some math or realize how useless what you know is.

Make a footpath down the side of your house, stick some curves in. Calculate the ground moved and concrete needed. Let your kids do the math. Let your kids do the design. Buy what they say you need. Embrace any failures as a family and learn from it. Give the kids a feeling if responsibility and ownership and they will learn the math during those lessons better than any textbook will teach them.
Sure, this is useful for the outliers who just straight don't work as much, but much less useful for telling the difference between a busy person and a productive person.

I have seen bad devs who make daily commits with tens or hundreds of LoC, but whose tools never actually convert to production use because they are mired in development hell, until someone pulls the project away from them and hands it to someone else.

Devs who are so bad that they legitimately spend weeks trying to make a tool that I then built in 2 days.

I think LoC irks me so much, because if I finish someone's "2-month" project in a week, LoC optimization effectively penalizes me for it.
"necessary but not sufficient"
This is how I record all of my work meetings, especially when I need to CYA
True but

- everybody should have the opportunity to retire

- that means they have to save & invest

- that means corporations have a moral duty to do their best

- if an old person entrusted my company with the financial results of their life's work, I'd feel a lot of pressure to make good on the implied promise that I won't just take the money and put my feet up
Nitpick: it’s macOS since 2016 :)
pointless make work, like washing the fire truck

lol

I think it's more than that
> But a simple binary "flagged as invasive", like a red dot on its product page, would be a terrific addition.

Agreed!

In terms of difficulty:benefit, a binary invasive flag would get most of the way there. E.g. English Ivy, Bradford Pears, Mexican Petunia, creeping bamboo.

Buuuuut... this looks like it's mostly for house plants, for which invasiveness is less of a concern.

However, I think it should mostly generalize to outdoor plants as well.

At least in the US, you could simply add USDA hardiness zone [0], which roughly indicates the boundaries a cultivar can survive winter (freezing) and summer (heat), and is almost always listed.

I'd be shocked if there wasn't a zipcode-to-USDAH converter out there.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardiness_zone#United_States...
> VC’s, hedge funds, etc. all run lean—none have 10k+ employees or anything close

This describes none of the multi-fund behemoths, e.g. Andreessen, Sequoia, et cetera. They have an entire caste of VC associates whose productivity is measured by the number of meetings they take; they're literally professional time wasters.
Reporting queries can put a significant load on the db, to the point that it interrupts service.
Your link does not pass a smell test in the slightest.

Even the first number he gives ("688,478 Excess Non-Covid Natural Cause Deaths (primarily from the Covid Vaccine)") is complete crackpot fiction and runs counter to the actual current evidence. In fact the very likely reason for this is miscounted/misattributed COVID deaths.

See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38300867/
> multiple possible meanings and interpretations, one of which being: any balsamic vinegar which is not traditional balsamic vinegar is “fake.”

Not a reasonable interpretation.

Not traditional means only what it says.

> To me, it’s somewhat obvious that the author believes real balsamic vinegar exists and so too must fake exist of the same

To me its obvious that an editor added a clickbait title that fails to accord with the article content. Period.
I'm about to reread Nixon Agonistes. It's always relevant, but in a year that has come eerily to resemble 1968, it's especially so.

More about the book here: https://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2005/11/gary_willss_nix.html
> all these engineers

I doubt they're referring to engineers.
You get an annual doctor visit for free with any insurance plan. There is no deductible or copay. There are other categories that are covered with no deductible. My wife had a $13,000 IUD insertion under anesthesia at a hospital due to complications, and this cost her $0 with insurance, without having met her deductible, since reproductive health is covered with no out of pocket cost under all ACA plans.

I'm on healthcare.gov looking at Georgia's plans this year for someone with $45K of income. You have options starting at $129/month. Many of these sub-$200 plans get you doctors visits for $40-60, prescription drugs for under $25 each, mental health treatment for under $60 per visit. This is all without hitting your deductible at all, they're day 1 prices.

If you paid the cash prices for many of these doctors, specialists, therapists, they'd be many times higher than the insurance negotiated costs. Look under the "covered costs" estimates for things like mental health treatment, diabetes maintenance, broken bone treatment, etc and you'll see that the estimated annual cost for the insured is often half or less the plan's deductible -- which tells you that hitting the deductible is not when the savings start. I don't think my wife or I have ever hit our out-of-pocket maximums in a year, yet the insurance has saved us more than it's cost in most years.

You're going to start interacting with the healthcare system a lot more than you have in your 20s once you're in your 30s. We all do at that age. And if you have even the worst ACA plan, you'll start to understand what it's doing for you regardless of the deductible.
China Hacked Ministry of Defence, Sky News Learns
> What's preventing you from doing more

MSFS itself, mostly - it's pretty much always CPU bottlenecked already, and you can do fast polling using C++ (by basically allocating a piece of shared memory that MSFS keeps dumping updates into), but when you're using an FFI layer in Python, JS, etc. you end up transferring "fat" objects and running real time without bogging down an average specced machine gets tricky. The game itself will generally run well below 60fps, so realistically the fastest you're going to get updates is 20~30Hz (which should be enough) but then you might also have your AP code competing with MSFS itself if they decide to run on the same core.

It would be cool to add a completely new chapter going "so we got all of this working pretty well: time to delete all our code and now redo it using control loops on an unused core" but that's one of those "if I ever have time again" things =P

> Everything I've read/learned about PID loops say to incorporate each term sequentially

Aye, but the problem is we don't have the luxury of tweaking the controller ourselves beforehand: the goal is an autopilot "that works for all planes", so the challenge would be to write a self-tuning PID solution that can do the job without any prior knowledge (because we're not profiling every plane in MSFS, that'd be a full time job). If we were writing an autopilot for our favourite, single plane, then tweaking the controller would be relatively easy, but the solution has to work for everything from a Top Rudder Solo 103 to a DC-3, which complicates things a little.

I'm not in love with the current implementation in erms of having quite a bit of "emergency detection" that changes control parameters if the current values end up steering us into bad control territory, but at the rate we're getting updates, it's at least serviceable.
You mean something like this?

https://targum.video/
> If your firefighters are spending more than ~10% of their time doing their actual job

Firefighters do a lot more than just fight fires.
Ozempic Is a Sophisticated Mind/Body Drug
Profiles in Courage by JFK (probably ghost written)

I go back to the section on Daniel Webster and the compromise of 1850 a lot. It always stuck with me how much courage it took to advocate for compromise and peace rather than head into a civil war.
That possibly works for quiet discussions, say <30 total posts.

For these with high level of engagement you often get distinct subtrees of threads which have little to do with each other.

For the latter the linear structure is awful.
I think when a group wants to build something you’re right - images help, but when you want to make a group build something text is often enough.
I understand. I wouldn't do it in the microwave, personally, though. I think the oven gives better results. But I was talking about using the bread without reheating it.

My experience in that is the opposite of yours. Once frozen, the bread is stale. You can cover that up by heating the bread, but that effect only lasts for as long as the bread is warm.

I find the "stale" thing so problematic that I would rather just not eat the bread.

But everyone's tastes are different! If it works for you, that's awesome.
I had a similar issue with buying a house. In the end we just wrote the roof replacement into the contingency of the contract and adjusted the price a bit so both sides paid a little bit into the cost of the new roof. The roof was replaced, we got our insurance, and the house was sold.
Apple Third-Party SDK List for Privacy Manifests
I dont think cryptos are securities;
especially given that they are decentralized, which is the whole point. Which would make these points of the howie test moot.

> 2) In a common enterprise. + 4) Due to the managerial efforts of others.

The expectation of profit is tricky, something like ethereum could argue that ethereum itself is used for network precipitation, gwei or gas. Also, wouldn't they have to out and say "PAY US FOR THESE AND WE WILL REWARD YOU WITH DOLLAR PROFITS"

Also, isn't crypto just beanie baby tulip bulbs. Aren't those commodities?
Funny enough I completely agree with the eliminative take that folk psychology can be reduced to physical processes. I dont think beliefs, desires, hopes and dreams are all require any kind of consciousness.

Where I disagree completely is qualia. Dennet makes some arguments about how any attribute/description we can ascribe to qualia is contradictory. As I see it, a failure to describe it with language has no bearing on the fact that it exists as a mental phenomenona.
If the stars fall down on me
And the sun refused to shine
Then may the shackles be undone
May all the old words cease to rhyme
If the sky turned into stone
It will matter not at all
For there is no Heaven in the sky
Hell does not wait for our downfall
This is a very important point. It sounds obvious that the proxy for something should be treated as if it was the thing, but research is a business and researchers are people subject to peer pressure and social desirability bias. So the proxy becomes the thing.
Vehicle Routing Open-Source Optimization Machine
While this is online, the work on paper is pretty much required for harder topics. https://mathacademy.com/ starts at where your kids currently are and then they can work as fast or as slow as they need through practical exercises.
> in the specific context of staking and promising returns, not crypto in general

Every ruling in the lower courts on these issues will be narrow. The SEC has been on a winning streak recently. The only major kerfuffle was the judge not ruling that XRP is a security, though Torres still ruled in the SEC's favour broadly, and the ruling has been widely criticised (not by industry people, but senior lawyers) for being likely to be overturned on appeal.
It should be outcome-based at every level, not just engineering.

Time boxing as a group (e.g. scrum poker) is useful for preventing a leader from underestimating time required for a task, which is a necessary safeguard on most teams when the engineer will be penalized if they don't meet a deadline, rather than a leader being penalized for setting too short of a deadline - even if this is the n-hundredth missed deadline by a report of theirs.
They "lose" money, not "loose" money.
Completely agree here. Complexity is the result of combining simple things together to optimally solve a specific problem under specific boundary conditions. The reason so many software devs are frustrated by complex artifacts, is that the initial problem and boundary conditions are usually not documented, often because some boundary conditions are actually a hidden agenda hostile to the recipient of the artifact.
I don't see why retirement is relevant here. Company's duty is to its shareholders either way.
I assume you haven't been there.
Yes, I have purchased their elementary level (under Beast Academy brand) as well we later books.

Have also subscribed to their online classes. Alcumus is free. I like AoPS and can recommend them.
I looked up Sled Driver and the cheapest I can find is $350 on eBay (with $475 being the next best price). Where did you find the book?
Why would you want (versus need) a Tesla? It’s no longer an aspirational product, it’s an appliance.
As a data point, we only ever have whole wheat sliced bread. I don't think we ever tried white bread. Sometimes from a bakery, other times various brands from the grocery store. It never comes out stale.
Fundamental Issues in Computer Vision Still Unresolved
Perhaps, but unless there's a way of processing wool I've never seen, it also lets lots of wind through and doesn't insulate like a bit of dry duck down (nothing does). And you have to keep the down dry.
My company, Hot Aisle, is.
I am not talking about 'hidden variables'. More like... 'hidden (unfound as of yet) functions'...
Mp3tag for Mac (https://mp3tag.app/) does the same - great piece of software, I've used it 6 times and have one day of trial left :)
Show HN: Chat with Steve Jobs via his recorded videos
I made a product that lets you train chatbots on a series of Youtube videos. You can share the links to the chatbots directly or (soon) embed them on your own site. Presumably for research, lead generation, GTM enablement, etc. but I thought training chatbots on people’s content was also a fun use case.
What about the PSAT and SAT prep books? They are tests only (with answers at the end of the chapter) and don't teach the techniques, but I found that my math skills got better just by doing more of it.
The current streaming service is shit.

If you stream via Chromecast, you can see your connection getting dropped by adaptive bitrate streaming in realtime.

It's always low quality, medium quality, high quality, ultra high quality, lag, then low quality again. You cannot change it to a fixed level manually too, on the Chromecast.
The holly three:
Caddy, Envoy, Traefik.
Do not use nginx and haproxy.
It's not so much they are paid to work, they are paid to be available. When something goes wrong, you need someone to fix it ASAP.
You said giving a fake name at the ER was the only option for poor AMERICANS to obtain healthcare.

That is categorically false, and testifes to some sort of deep seated bias against our own country profoundly embedded in your worldview -- one which extends all the way to glib counterfactual promotion of verifiably false information about the country and its supposed moral shortcomings.

2) Texas has a much larger population than 49 of the other 50 states -- about 30 million, higher than any state but California. Of course the number of uninsured residents will be higher than the national average. You didn't control for uninsured per capita.

Why are so many uninsured if it's possible (I didn't say easy) for them to get coverage? Probably, a large part of the reason is people who go around promoting the (completely false) common trope that "poor Americans just can't get health coverage, the government does nothing for them."
Nice, I am about to look into wildcard certs w/ nixos. Looks like it all 'just works' as long as you use a supported DNS provider?
I don't care how smart GPT-5 is, I'm not going to use it as my primary AI until OpenAI can beat Groq's speed.
the old Uber tactic, classic.